Reyhaneh Jabbari

Reyhaneh Jabbari (1988-25 October 2014) was an Iranian woman who was hanged in 2014 for murdering an assailant of her. Her death caused international outrage.

Biography
Reyhaneh Jabbari was born in 1988 and became an interior decorator, but in 2007 the Iranian intelligence officer Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi tried to rape her after drugging her while they talked in a cafe. She stabbed Sarbandi with a knife, killing him, although it was found out that she had bought the knife two days before the murder, leading Sarbandi's family to declare that it was premeditated murder. Amnesty International, the United Nations, European Union, and the Gatestone Institute asked that her life be spared and 20,000 signatures on a petition forced Iran to postpone her hanging from April 2014. However, at the Gohardasht Prison to the north of Karaj, she was executed on 25 October 2014.